Black screen after windows loads

Hey, im quite new here and i do not have that special skills in using computers. My pc is Dell Optiplex Gx-60 with Windows Professional XP SP2.

First of all.. I had a virus on my computer called DriveCleaner. I needed to boot to safe mode to use a program called smitfraudfix to remove it. I tried to boot and it loads SPTD.sys and then it just stays there and up in the left corner there is a mark like this _ flashing all the time but nothing happens. Same thing happens if i try to boot normally to windows. I tried using the windows install cd but it just stops to the part "Looking previous windows installitions" or something..

Im in a really sticky situation right now. Could anyone help? The problem is not with my video card, thats for sure.

 

You maybe at the time in looking at formating your computer clean and starting from scratch.

 

Look, it just crashes when i try to format with the windows cd

 

Well then use a floppy and format your computer with a floppy boot disk. Then try boot from the CD again.

 

Bios is password protected and i have forgotten the password. i cant set up bios to boot from floppy

 

The only way to get around that is to remove the bios battery and leave it out for a day. Make sure when you take it out you make sure everything is turned off and everything is disconnected even from the power and case wires as in the keyboard and mouse connections etc...

 

Okay, i found the password jumper. i removed it and managed to setup floppy boot. I deleted the windows partition with fdisk. Then i managed to install windows again !

 

Kewl glad to see everything worked out in the end.

 

@yaibal: Glad things worked out.


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